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Join us as Russell Kelty, Associate Curator of Asian Art, speaks about woodblock prints created in mid-nineteenth century Japan which depict samurai, currently on display in Gallery 21.
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Image: Japan, Archery contest at Sanjusangendo (Sanjusangendo toshiya no zu), c.1750, Kyoto, tsuitate screen, wood, silk, ink and pigments and paper, 131.3 x 148.0 cm (image), 143.0 x 159.8 cm (overall); Gift of Frances Gerard and Mark Livesey QC with the assistance of the Roy and Marjory Edwards Bequest Fund through the Art Gallery of South Australia Foundation Collectors Club 2014, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide.
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